AIUI "doesn't look like Turkish" was one of the design criteria, for political reasons.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:07 PM Michael Everson via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Not using Turkic letters is daft, particularly as there was a widely-used > transliteration in Kazakhstan anyway. And even if not Ç Ş, they could have > used Ć and Ś. > > There’s no value in using diagraphs in Kazakh particularly when there > could be a one-to-one relation with the Cyrillic orthography, and I bet you > anything there will be ambiguity where some morpheme ends in -s and the > next begins with h- where you have [sx] and not [ʃ]. > > Groan. > > > On 20 Feb 2018, at 20:40, Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de> > wrote: > > > > Michael Everson: > >> Why on earth would they use Ch and Sh when 1) C isn’t used by itself > and 2) if you’re using Ǵǵ you may as well use Çç Şş. > > > > I would have argued in favor of digraphs for G' and N' as well if there > already was a decision for Ch and Sh. > > > > Many European orthographies use the digraph Qu although the letter Q > does not occur otherwise. > > >
